Students

Courses, Programs & Degrees

CEnREP faculty are engaged in teaching a variety of natural resource and environmental policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. A field specialization in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics is available through the PhD program in Economics.

In addition to courses at NCSU, graduate students at NCSU, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may take courses at the other two institutions at no additional cost. PhD students interested in natural resource and environmental economics from Duke and UNC are frequently enrolled in ECG715 and ECG716, fostering a community among the students in the Triangle region.

Student Placement

Undergraduate students who have worked with CEnREP faculty have gone on to graduate programs at NCSU and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in a variety of fields including

Business Administration

Economics

Engineering

Public health

Social work.

Past graduate students and post-doctoral researchers affiliated with CEnREP have accepted positions at:

Arizona State University

Brigham Young University

Claremont McKenna College

East Carolina University

Economic Research Service, USDA

McKinsey & Company

RTI International (multiple)

The Ohio State University

Office of Policy, US Department of Transportation

Oklahoma State University

Oregon State University

Pennsylvania State University

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

University of Kentucky

University of Missouri, Columbia

University of Nevada-Reno

University of Richmond

University of Southern California*

University of Tennessee

US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics (multiple)

Virginia Tech

Washington State University

Wells Fargo

Williams College

* Post-doctoral positions

Student Opportunities

Doctoral candidates engage with CEnREP faculty in current research projects, many of which fund the student's progress toward their degree or fund the data collection necessary for their dissertation work.

Doctoral students also have opportunities for teaching in the department of agricultural and resource economics and the department of economics, and CEnREP affiliated students have taught ARE336: Introduction to Environmental Policy.

CEnREP also provides office space and computing facilities within the CEnREP suite for a limited number of students engaged in, and funded by, CEnREP activities.